Harness-snap



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACEr HARRIS, OF NEWARK, NI'IV JERSEY.

HARNESS-SNAP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,796, ated March 14, 1865; antedated March l, 1865.

To au whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE HARRIS, of the city of Newark, in the county ot Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented an 1mprovement in the Mode ot Constructing Harness Snaps; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exact description of the same, reference being had to accompanying drawings and to tte letters marked thereon.

The nature ot' my invention consists in the mode of attf'aehing the spring to the hook ot' a harnesssnap. v

The hook is made with lips A A (see Figure 1) thrown up at the sides of the recess B, into which the spring C, corrugated or notched at thevbaek end, D, Fig. 2, is laid. The lips then being riveted down over the corrugated end of the spring D, (see Fig. 3,) hold it positive, without the liability of loosening in use.

I am aware that hooks have been made and HORACE HARRIS.

Witnesses:

WM. GRISWOLD, JAMES L. BoWEN. 

